rough-and-tumble vs stink

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

stink

noun
  • A complaint or objection. 

  • A strong bad smell. 

adj
  • Bad; inferior; worthless. 

  • Bad-smelling, stinky. 

verb
  • To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. 

  • To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. 

  • To cause to stink; to affect by a stink. 

  • To have a strong bad smell. 

How often have the words rough-and-tumble and stink occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )